Written questions
9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.
25 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many drug tests have been administered in the (a) Royal Air Force and (b) Royal Navy in each of the last five years.
25 Feb 2019 · Home Office
Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women in the UK hold a firearms licence.
25 Feb 2019 · Home Office
Airbnb
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to prevent properties rented out via AirBnB being used as brothels.
21 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fertility: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS has commissioned research on potential links between infertility and endometrium.
21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what housing support his Department provides to people over 55.
21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence
Army: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to reduce the proportion of army personnel that cannot be sent overseas due to medical reasons.
21 Feb 2019 · Department for Education
Children: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department provides funding to programmes that aim to support children from broken families.
21 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Liver Diseases: Transplant Surgery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS news story entitled Machine that keeps livers 'alive' may boost transplant rates, published in April 2018, whether the NHS has any plans to commission further research on
21 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of enforcement of laws on animal cruelty.
19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Self-harm: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Children's Society finding in their report entitled The Good Childhood Report 2018 that one in five 14 year old girls have self-harmed, what discussions he has had with the Se
19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Public Health: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on funding more greenways to encourage a healthier lifestyle.
19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of agency workers and increase the number of permanent staff in the NHS.
19 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Salmon: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions officials in his Department have had with their counterparts in the Scottish Government on trends in mortality rates for farmed salmon.
19 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Divorce
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for a divorce were lodged between Christmas 2018 and New Year 2019.
19 Feb 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Sudan: Economic Situation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the North Sudanese Government on economic support for that country.
19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Kidneys
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people aged between 10 and 20 have had operations for kidney-stones in each of the last five years.
19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Exercise
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps the NHS has taken to promote the health benefits of regular exercise.
19 Feb 2019 · Home Office
Asylum: Saudi Arabia
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Saudi Arabian citizens have applied for asylum in each of the last five years.
19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: Transplant Surgery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have had an operation for an artificial heart have been undertaken in the NHS.
19 Feb 2019 · Department for Education
Schools: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to reduce the level of attacks on teachers by pupils in schools.
19 Feb 2019 · Church Commissioners
Christianity: Oppression
To ask the Right Honourable Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what humanitarian support the Church of England provides to people overseas that are persecuted for their Christian beliefs.
19 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Poultry: Legionnaires' Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many outbreaks of legionnaires in turkeys there have been in the last five years.
19 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dangerous Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dog attacks on humans there have been in each of the last five years.
14 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to safeguard bus routes in socially isolated areas.
14 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to introduce a compulsory drink awareness course as part of a driving test.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Medicine: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to support medical research and development in (a) Queens University Belfast Medical Research Centre and (b) other universities.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Zero Hours Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he is taking steps to end the use of zero hour contracts.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development
Supermarkets: Fairtrade Initiative
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department provides to Fair Trade companies as part of its work to tackle human and labour rights abuses in the global supply chains of UK supermarkets.
12 Feb 2019 · Home Office
Privacy
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the implications are for the policies of (a) his Department and (b) agencies of his Department of the judgment in the case of Catt v UK Govt.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development
Afghanistan: Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian support her Department has provided to Afghanistan as a result of the drought in that country.
Source: official written-questions record.